Simon and Schuster is suing
Foxy Brown and L’il Kim for keeping advances but never turning in promised book manuscripts.

The publishing house, a unit of CBS Corp., said today in separate lawsuits filed in state court in New York that Brown, whose genuine name is Inga Marchand, and Lil’ Kim, whose genuine name is Kimberly Jones, signed contracts to write books.



Simon & Schuster said it paid Brown $75,000 under a 2006 contract for an autobiography tentatively titled Broken Silence. The publisher said Lil’ Kim signed a contract in 2004 and was paid $40,000 for an untitled novel.
“Both accepted the money and both books never were delivered,” Simon & Schuster spokesman Adam Rothberg said today in a phone interview.



Rothberg said the publisher has teamed up with other rappers and hip-hop artists on books. Starting in 2007, Simon & Schuster and hip-hop artist 50 Cent started a series

of books based on his rhymes about drug dealing, street crime and expensive cars. “That line of books was very successful and we’ve also published books by members of 50 Cent’s G-Unit posse,” Rothberg said.

50 Cent turned his book in on time and it make lots of money. But apparently L’il, Kim and Foxy Brown don’t share Fiddy’s work ethic. Thus, the two lawsuits. We certainly hope that neither case settles, just so we can see L’il Kim being cross-examined as to why she didn’t write the book she promised.



The entire thing is ridiculous, anyways. Where are the ghost writers? All they needed was a couple of interviews and — presto — two more autobiographies.



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